Estimate backup size of Application aware backups

[BoRiisDK]

Hello,

When estimating backup storage consumption it is well defined when only using VM backups with a certain retention. But how do I (gu)estimate what additional backup storage is used when enabling Application aware backups?

Regards

[wishr]

Hi Aalborg,

Welcome to Veeam Community Forums and thanks for posting.

AAIP itself does not impact the backup size. There is no need to perform additional calculations.

Thanks

[BoRiisDK]

Hi wishr,

Do you say that no additional data is stored when using AAIP?

Where does the SQL hourly backup data go then?

[wishr]

Hi,

SQL T-logs backups is a separate question AAIP just implies you get a backup made with VSS.

SQL T-logs data, of course, will require additional space on the repository, but there is no methodology for its calculation. You may play with the initial backup sizes and perform a calculation based on the initial T-log backup sizes specific to your environment.

Thanks

[foggy]

Also, here's a handy tool for backup size calculation.